Your RoleFocused Energy is looking for a Software Engineer II to join our team and help scale software engineering productivity across the company. As we grow rapidly across multiple geographies, the adoption of AI-assisted development tools needs a coordinated, reliable approach - without it, we risk inconsistent practices, duplicated effort, and code quality issues across projects.
In this role, you will design, build, and deploy automated developer tooling, internal AI workflows, and software agents that act as productivity multipliers for our software team. Over the next 6-18 months, you'll help define how Focused Energy adopts AI-assisted and agentic coding tools responsibly, raising the bar on code quality, testing, and reliability as the engineering org scales.
What You'll Do- Design, build, and maintain AI-assisted developer productivity tools, code quality automation, and modern CI/CD infrastructure.
- Translate software development requirements into clear software designs, internal developer APIs, and repository templates.
- Lead technical design discussions and establish safe, practical standards for using AI-generated code and agentic tools across the department.
- Proactively address code quality, testing, and reliability gaps by building robust automated testing frameworks and code-review gating systems.
- Write clear runbooks, documentation, and training guides to help engineering teams adopt AI-assisted development tools responsibly.
- Collaborate with other software teams to systematically debug complex issues across system boundaries and ensure safe release processes.
Who You Are- An independent software engineer who can own a distinct system, feature, or service from design to production.
- Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools and writing software automation or integrations.
- Experience in software quality practices, automated testing, code review, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
- Write clean, readable, and documented code that follows established engineering patterns.
- Proficiency in modern programming languages (such as Python, C++) and web service development.
- Solid understanding of software architecture, APIs, repository structure, and CI/CD automation.
- Communicate complex technical concepts in simple, clear language to both technical and non-technical partners.
- Effective in ambiguous or changing priority environments and translate loose needs into structured software plans.
- High curiosity and an active growth mindset to learn new technical domains.
- Provide constructive, detailed feedback in code reviews and mentor other engineers on tooling and best practices.
- Preferred: experience building developer experience platforms, internal tools, repository templates, or custom engineering infrastructure.
- Preferred: experience with agentic coding frameworks, prompt engineering, or LLM-based development APIs.
- Preferred: experience in high-complexity engineering environments where software closely interacts with hardware or scientific instruments.
What We Offer- Innovative Technology & Mission: Be part of a cutting-edge company working on groundbreaking research in clean energy and scientific discovery.
- Career Development: We invest in our people. This is an opportunity to join an early, growing company at the forefront of new technology, where you'll have the opportunity to develop and grow your career.
- Collaborative Culture: Work with great people in a dynamic, international environment with top-tier scientists, engineers and professionals passionate about solving global challenges.
- Ownership: Take ownership from day 1 and drive impact by making decisions, solving challenges and shaping the future of our company.
- Your Success is our Success: We offer a competitive salary and company ownership in the form of stock options, giving you a direct stake in our success and ownership in what we build together.
- Medical, Dental, Vision: Multiple great plans to pick from that are active come the 1st Day of employment for you and any enrolled dependents.
- Vacation Days: We support your work-life-balance by granting you Unlimited PTO.
- Snacks and Drinks: Our office fridges are never empty. Enjoy our healthy snacks and drinks.
- Retirement Plan: If you decide to enroll in our 401k plan, we will match up to 4% on top of the employee contribution.
- Equipment: We offer state-of-the-art Windows or Apple Laptops. In addition, you will receive a keyboard, mouse and headset so you are fully equipped from day 1.
- Events: We organize regular events to foster team bonding, encourage collaboration, and build a strong, supportive company culture. Connect with colleagues across departments, share ideas, and have fun together, both in and outside of the workplace.
Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, benefits.
